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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The tiniest of gladiators
- I stared into those biggest of navy blue eyes and felt the power of his fighting spirit, despite the pain and week long raging fever. Most of the time my heart was in my throat and my mind was awash with counter-productive thoughts like, "why him?" and "this isn't fair!"This wasn't helping him to be sure (my daughter was much stronger than I), but in spite, he not only survived the arduous ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Believe in yourself!
- A near middle-aged man in one of my last workshops had followed his calling for the past decade with unbounded zeal. Alas, his career had never developed into long-term employment but rather, was fraught with numerous set-backs, lay-offs and even dismissals. With five children to feed and his life passion now shelved this man faced depression and desperation.Yet, we could all borrow a page ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Favorite quotations... what do they say about us?
- Have you stopped to think what your favorite quotes are saying about you and your life experiences?How you relate to them? How they relate to you?Today... I decided to take one of my favorite quotes and see how it applies to me. You may want to do the same thing.This quote by Louis L'Amour is one of my favorites..."Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, he...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Living on purpose: one rock at a time
- I just got back from Colorado where I spent a week relaxing, re-energizing and revisiting the key values in my life. The lodge where I stayed is called Peaceful Valley, and it has a chapel on the premises. I've been to Peaceful Valley and to this chapel many times over the years. The chapel is at the end of a steep ten-minute hike, which has become a ritual for me. The view at the top -- a part of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A perfect world in the making
- The world is perfect the way it is. The world is a reflection of the thoughts of its inhabitants. The world is a perfect reflection in physical form of those thoughts.The world does not change on its own. Before a change can occur, there must be a thought behind it. It is humanity's thoughts that trigger the changes. I do not make any changes I facilitate them. It is your command that creat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You are the one, there is no one else
- At the time I created my web site, I was looking for that one special person that would read something on my site or in my books or articles and become inspired. I was thinking it would move them forward to write or do something really great that would raise peoples consciousness and bring awareness into their lives. It was and still is my hope that I will inspire someone to do great things....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spiritual bread making
- All the ingredients to make 12 loaves of bread already exist. The probability that any kind of bread already exists in your reality and it is simply is a matter of combining ingredients to create a possibility. The ingredients do not have to be created to make brown bread, they already exist. What is it that makes brown bread?First, it is a thought about brown bread. It is your thought, and...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blessings for the soul
- In Corrogue I count my Blessings.These are numerous. There is every breath in. There is every breath out. There is every heartbeat that reminds me of the joy of compassion and the blessing of this experience called life.Each day I count my breath for ten minutes. In this way it becomes refined. I am refined and in truth I feel fine. I do not subscribe to our socially sanctioned emoti...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Succeed by whistling while you work
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) believed that having fun is important if you want to be successful."The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation."Mark Twain must have had fun as a writer. His sense of fun emerges in his writings. No wonder he lived to a good age for those days. He learned as a boy how to turn work into a vacation. I owe the following story about him to Alan Ell...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beyond the river: kabbalahs guidance for our times
- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move ourselves in the opposite direction."Albert EinsteinIntroductionWhile there continues to be enough violence and insanity in our post election world right now to warrant the urgent need for any shift in consciousness that we can gather, the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Persistency - element in reality
- One of the keys to being successful in anything you do is persistence. Lets clarify the word 'persistence' :- It is ability to be persist on instances. And one of key element in this instances is your main Objective in life.Persistence is success formula made up form the grouping of: confidence+ sustainability +Will power + endurance + self-esteem +patience & optimism.Take an instanc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Take out time -- to just be thankful
- While sitting here tonight, watching the conclusion of "There Are No Children Here," my heart pulsated as I heard a little innocent boy say, "When I wake up in the morning, I feel good that God gave me another chance to stay alive." This statement as innocent as it was, was true to him because of where he lived, and the lethal possibilities that he faced daily of being killed by someone'...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tomorrow may be too late
- A high school senior, looking forward to going to college, inspiring to become a doctor kisses her parents and dashes out the door to go to school, smiling, and waving goodbye -- never realizing that before day's end, she would meet the fate of a deadly bullet.A husband and wife have a lover's quarrel, laying back to back in bed -- he, thinking about apologizing, she, thinking about talking...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Turning your life over to god and trusting him to lead you is like . . . . .
- . . . . . riding a roller coaster for the very first time. You've heard things about roller coaster rides, but what you heard depended on who was doing the telling. From some people (usually kids, or chronological adults who remained kids at heart and kept their iron stomachs) you heard glorious stories about the thrilling climbs and descents, about the twists and turns and maybe even roll-overs. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The challenge to succeed
- So much has been written about success that one often gets confused about what success is all about. Success is such a personal thing that it may mean different things to different people. Yet we need to have a simple definition which should apply to all successful people and situations. The ultimate purpose of being successful is to take pride in one's achievements and be happy; and I think one o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Have a green day, every day!
- Green symbolises growth. Growth requires change and transformation. This article will help you reach your maximum potential. You can have a green day, every day!Have you ever asked yourself, "Is there any meaning to life? Is there a purpose for me being here on earth? What am I here for?"If you are have asked any of these questions you are not alone. Millions of people arou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to weather lifes inevitable storms
- In the Northeast, we have a few months to prepare for winter by gathering firewood, securing windows and doors, and getting furnaces cleaned. As with any change, there is always a period of adjustment required. Often change in our lives doesn't occur so predictably.Change can seemingly come out of nowhere and catch us off guard. We are unprepared, shocked and numbed by the news of the resul...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Borne upon the wings of words
- How often do you have opportunities every day to exercise your power of communication--encouraging a coworker, appreciating a spouse, guiding a child?Whenever I visit the Washington, DC area, I usually present a seminar or two at First Class, a Lifelong Learning Center near DuPont Circle. I arrived at the DuPont Circle Metro rail stop about 5:00 p.m. on a dreary, rainy day--right on schedul...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top 15 inspirational quotations
- Get inspired and lift your spirits with these positive quotations that will surely stimulate your soul and perhaps motivate your mind..."No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings."-- William Blake"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -- Les Brown"Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration." ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Small steps, great strides
- Sacred space, sacred timeBelieve in your personal power, retrieve if lostExplore, enhance creativity to allow flow of positive energyDon't get stuck in a rut, seek out a form of support systemAssess, evaluate your attitude, believe in the power of positive affirmationValue your gifts, your talents, count your blessingsThink once, think twice, think again b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An extraordinary person
- I am not going to tell you the story of an extraordinary person, who did remarkable things in life. Why should I? Are you not an extraordinary person? What do you think about yourself? You possess all the assets of an extraordinary person but, unfortunately, you are not an extraordinary person because you don't think so.Your low belief level about your own capabilities is blocking your way ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Unconditional love is absolute freedom to screw up your life
- In my lifetime, I have never witnessed enduring unconditional love from another human being. I do not believe it is physically possible. I think that once we have reached that position of being able to give it, we have already passed over to join with the one that is unconditional love. I believe that this state is only experienced spiritually.It is our inborn desire to move to a place of u...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Financial freedom blues
- Steps to Financial Freedom, roadmap to financial freedom, achieve financial freedom?Financial freedom seems to be the current buzzword in the world of self-improvement. This has spawned a new industry, and alongside it, some curious schemes and fantastic claims of how to achieve financial freedom in months.Financial freedom means different things to different people. For some, it mea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Consulting your soul
- Recently I approached a traffic light where a man stood in shabby clothes with a three-legged dog by his side. As I waited for the light to change I looked at this scene with compassion and felt an urge to contribute something. The sign he was carrying indicated that he was homeless. The people in my car commented that he was a strong young man, there were plenty of employment opportunities, and w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Abundance is a life style
- Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. Itisn't something you buy now and then or pull down from thecupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return tothe cupboard. Abundance is a philosophy, it appears in your physiology,your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs. Youwalk with, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, andneed to m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Adversity, what is it good for?
- As I sat down to write this article, I was reflecting back over the last week ? a week filled with adversity. We all go through it and it is during those times that we may often wonder what is it all for anyway? What is the point? What is it good for?I decided to look up the word, adversity, from my old American Heritage Dictionary. The word is defined as "1. A state of hardship or aff...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - ?back to cya on a mission?
- Six former wards came back to the California Youth Authority (CYA) earlier this month. This time they volunteered to return. They were on a mission to deliver a message to the wards at N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, which houses California's most violent youth offenders ages 18-24. The diverse panel of ex-convicts purposefully stepped through the fences of Chaderjian as law-abiding c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Conscious living
- Earlier this year, following an intention to live more consciously, I deemed it the Year of Awakening. For me, I envision a lifetime of conscious living as I more fully awaken to the spiritual being that I truly am. As a part of my spiritual journey, I love to look up the meanings of things to gain an even deeper understanding. This is what Webster's Dictionary had to say about the word conscious:...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Revenge in the end is bitter sweet
- We ALL think or have thought about it at one time or another. Revenge! Yes, we plan, we let our minds conjure up ways to get back at someone who we believe has wronged us (at this point you should hear the Austin Power-Dr. Evil maniacal laugh in your head).I've yet to hear a speaker on success really discuss revenge so I thought I take a stab at it (no pun intended) by sharing a recent inci...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The rumble in the jungle: revealing greatness
- The other night I was watching a documentary on that famous boxing match called The Rumble in the Jungle. The fight was between Muhammad Ali (Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee) and George Foreman.The fight was held in Kinshasa, Zaire back in 1974. This fight was crucial to Muhammad Ali who was at a career low-point after having lost his last two big fights. He now faced George Forema...